SB11 Alabama 2015 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Cam Ward
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2015
Title: Death penalty, execution by electrocution required under certain conditions, Sec. 15-18-82.1 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a death sentence is executed by lethal injection, unless a person sentenced to death affirmatively elects to be executed by electrocution.
This bill would require a person sentenced to death after the effective date of the act to be executed by electrocution if lethal injection is deemed unconstitutional by the courts or if an ingredient essential to carrying out a lethal injection is unavailable to the Department of Corrections.
Subjects: Crimes and Offenses

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary